cell phone ban senator crashes car while on the phone

[fordgt84]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/call-causes-cell-phone-ban-senator-to-crash-suv.html#more-5116

fucking hypocrite :bad-words:

[ae86_16v]

Yeah, I saw that other day. How ironic. :D

[dutchmasterflex]

Yup, just like that asshole NJ Governor who recently passed the a law that you can get pulled over and ticketed JUST for not wearing your seatbelt. I got fucked over last year when I went to NJ to get gas before heading back up to Boston. Ended up getting my car impounded.

Anyway, the Governor recently got into a near fatal car crash @ 90mph and wasn't wearing his seatbelt.

[HeilSvenska]

Actually. There might be more to this

The senator's office claims that she was distracted by cellphone, but from what I read she might have been under something or other.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_5965897
Trail of 9-1-1 calls follow Migden's accident route
CHP talks to witnesses in fender-bender involving state senator

Five or six "credible" witnesses say state Sen. Carole Migden was driving unsafely during a trip in which she hit a guardrail before rear-ending a car as it slowed for a red light, investigators said Tuesday.
More than a half-dozen motorists made emergency 9-1-1 calls Friday about Migden's erratic driving as she was weaving in and out of traffic before the accident, the California Highway Patrol said.

Although one driver involved in the incident said Migden "wasn't coherent" and seemed unsteady and either "drunk or on something," she was allowed to go on her way after a test with a hand-held breath device. CHP officials are investigating various accounts of the incident, in which one driver was injured.

Williford said both Migden and witnesses have confirmed that Migden's SUV grazed a guardrail on Interstate 80 before she rear-ended the Honda sedan.

According to witnesses quoted in a KTVU television report Monday, Migden was driving at high speed on eastbound 80, swerving from one lane to another while both reading and talking on a cell phone.

KTVU's Rita Williams reported that one driver said he saw Migden hit another center divide. Williford said CHP is looking into that possibility.

"They were getting onto her, and all she was saying was, 'You can't talk to me like that, I'm a state senator,'" Jordan said. "That's all she would answer."

"There was something wrong with her. I told both the highway patrol and the city police that arrived that either she's drunk or on something.

"She just wasn't coherent, nor could she stand there steady," Jordan said.

Migden's sobriety was tested by officers using a hand-held breath-testing unit, known as a preliminary alcohol screen, even though there was nothing to indicate she had been drinking, Williford said.

The driver of the Honda that Migden hit, Ellen Butawan of Vallejo, said the impact of the crash crushed in her trunk about three feet. "I did not see it coming," Butawan told the Associated Press. "I heard no screeching brakes."

Butawan said she went to the hospital "with a head injury, and the left side of my face is black and blue." She said her daughter suffered chest abrasions from the car-seat restraining harness.

Because the Friday accident involved a state-owned vehicle, Migden is required to submit a report to police unless she decides to use her own insurance to cover the costs, said Alicia Trost, a spokeswoman for state Senate Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland.

[ferrarif1fan89]

Women drivers claiming they can multitask............... pff. :roll: :wink:

[dutchmasterflex]

Women drivers claiming they can multitask............... pff. :roll: :wink:

Until they get drunk ;)

[novass]

I hate politicians

[Mattk]

Yup, just like that asshole NJ Governor who recently passed the a law that you can get pulled over and ticketed JUST for not wearing your seatbelt.

And what is the problem with wearing seatbelts? It is an offence not to wear one, is it not?

Anyway, sucked in to this senator, who looks like a blonde version of a former law lecturer of mine. It shows why talking on the phone and driving is indeed a bad thing to do. She demonstrated why a ban is needed very well.

[dangerously_cool]

Goddamn cunt. I'm sick of that shit. California's got its head up its ass and, I'll bet she's not using her own insurance on that.

[silentm]

how ironic, amking a perfect example why to ban using a cellphone while driving.

@dutchmasterflex

not buckling up is imo even dumber than talking or using a phone while driving. imagine if some other dumbass rearended you like in this case...